Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the prize in economic sciences are awarded to the Nobel Prize laureates. This year, the award ceremony was…

Interview, June 2022 “Amazing doesn’t even begin to cover it” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? High school student Lucas Madrigrano Azeredo met 2021 chemistry laureate David MacMillan 14 June 2022 to talk about life, football and career choices. MacMillan also shared his best advice for…

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Interview, January 2024 “Trust your own intuition and ideas” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? On 23 January 2024, Benjamin List was joined by ten students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a…

Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2021. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a game changer. Like a new chess piece that is very, very powerful” Immediately following the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 Chemists can create new molecules by linking together small chemical building blocks, but controlling invisible substances so they bond in the desired way is difficult. Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a new and ingenious tool for molecule…

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Swedish 6 oktober 2021 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi 2021 till Benjamin List Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany David W.C. MacMillan Princeton University, USA “för utveckling av asymmetrisk organokatalys”   Ett genialt verktyg för att bygga molekyler Att bygga molekyler är en svår konst. Benjamin List och David MacMillan belönas med…